skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I asked for concrete evidence that Western actions threatened Russia and I needed to read two whole books, something doesn't add up. You should easily find evidence, like the collective Western countries destroying Russian infrastructure, hacking of Russian organizations, killing of civilians... something.

Especially when one of which highlights Russia shooting down the flight MH17 and killing 300 people, very much like the shooting of the Azerbaijan airplane which Russia denied emergency landing - probably in an attempt to make it crash to destroy the evidence. With the flight MH17, there were pictures taken by Russians proudly on top of the debris, and this time around medals were awarded.

As for Scott Horton's book, he sure knows how to repeat Russian propaganda points, including the "not one inch of NATO expansion" lie, in the classical conspiracy theory fashion, just the description says it all:

"Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.”"

It's funny that a lot of these "Russian mouthpieces" have something in common: only Russia "the victim" and the USA "the aggressor" have agency, and the remaining sovereign countries and their millions of citizens are NPCs, with no will or History of their own.

If you want to have a basic understanding of why Russia pushed countries to join NATO there's this short video that sums it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWK_euAwrMk

Long story short: Sovereign countries got fed up with Genocide and aggression at the hands of Russians, who now believe that multipolarity is a rightful green card for unchecked coercion of neighboring countries.

If you want a deeper understanding I recommend the work of Stephen Kotkin, an actual Academic and Historian respected in academia and a reference all over the world (funny enough, even in Russia).
I guess they're not so concerned with the "oops, poison" aspect of manufacturing drugs. Or ethics driven testing of drugs for safety and efficacy. Seems like a great way to fk up and kill people. Also, they say compounding pharmacies are illegal, but they're not. Not in the US or Germany. There's one down the street from me and my neighbor was a compounding pharmacist.
Most non software engineers do not have the PE.
Warning: It may break ypur microwave. Use a spare microwave or ensure your S.O. is at least as crazy as you.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_International_Airli...
You might like the YouTube channel "Weird Explorer". He's been traveling the world since 2012, attempting to taste every fruit.

https://youtube.com/@weirdexplorer
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> If some ChatGPT text can trick you then your process is broken anyway

This is pretty unfair and seems like victim-blaming when we have companies spending billions of dollars to create these programs with the specific intent of trying to pass the Turing test.
One some topics this is realized and praised on HN.

On other topics, the cognition flips.

This is the nature of evolved, culturally conditioned consciousness (one of the things most HN'ers like talking about from an abstract perspective, but really don't like talking about at the object level during discussions of certain controversial ideas, when heuristics have taken control of the mind).

For fun: observe the nature of comments in this thread from a meta perspective of a curious alien observer.
Personally, I agree the "freedom" trick you're proposing has a high likelihood of being true. If not invented - then subverted for sure. I believe it's trivial (relative to the power a state actor can exert) to do that.

Can you expand on the rules enacting new markets & taxes?
I know it's about copyright 'piracy' instead of actual piracy, but the title being 'Piracy in the UK' makes me chuckle, like we've got buccaneers on Scarborough Mere.
Describe a feature visually in words or sketches and get back CSS that works.
I think intellectual property is a really bad concept, but I will acquiesce that short-term protection on some ideas, which can faithfully accounted back to significant investment cost, is a fair compromise. However this would never work well in our current system, and I'd rather there simply be not IP laws at all.
> I also doubt that it was a profit motive.

One of the most profitable companies in the world trying to build more of a moat of incompatibilities with the rest of the non-apple world with no profit or ulterior motive? /s

Once a for-profit company gets large enough doing anything other than “maximize profit up to the point of illegality” becomes a Herculean task. It’s a natural consequence of capitalism, greed, and large organizations.

Good on EU for being a counter-balance force
No, the debt crisis is long over and sorted.
This could get super interesting with my country’s political situation. I could see two particular groups getting into med production:

- Pregnant women who need abortion medication

- Trans people who need hormones

With finasteride and puberty blockers/HRT being criminalized, a lot of people in the above categories are turning to black market / DIY solutions.
When it’s a small operation, yes I get suspicious that they’re not focusing on their stated mission with their limited resources. Also, ambience is part of the sensory pleasure of a restaurant.
I would compare the performance of small countries in Europe but not in the EU, with EU countries in the last decades.

For example, one could look at Germany, in 50 years there was only little growth:

https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/profile/DEU
Bench Shuts Down Abruptly
It's too long. That's the only real problem with it. The same UUID in base58 would be:

Xe22UfxT3rxcKJEAfL5373

Which is 22 characters instead of 36.
From what I've seen, some niche servers have very detailed and very strict rules intended to address the needs of certain marginalized groups. An example I've seen is requiring a content warning for any image where a person or animal is staring directly into the lens, appearing to make eye contact with the viewer.

Of course pressuring mainstream servers to adopt such a rule is not reasonable. Automatically applying a content warning to all media from servers that don't have the same rule would be a good solution. Bluesky's labelers provide a way to do something similar, but I don't think the Bluesky appview has a way to express something like "blur all media without the 'safe for my needs' label".
I sort of agree with both you and the parent.

Connectivity/smartphones do make things "easier" but they also tend to make them less spontaneous and serendipitous. And, yes, while a lot of it is that I'm trying to declutter my house and I like to travel light, I also find that I have pretty much zero interest in shopping abroad.
While I don’t doubt that the author has good reason for their opinion, the reason is handwaved here, no? Where is the tech debt? In the kernel only? Does it affect user space? For who is it more or less composable?

I personally think ”async IO” (a term I don’t love, but anyway), should be agreed upon and settled across OSs. Not necessarily exact syscall equivalence, but the major design choices needs to be the same. For instance, who owns the buffers (kernel or user), and should it be completion or ready-based event systems?

The reason I think this is so important to agree upon, is that language runtimes (and other custom runtimes like libuv) need to be simplified in order to allow for healthy growth. Any language that doesn’t have cross-platform support for ”async IO” is completely nerfed, increasing the barrier of entry for things that otherwise would be ”graduate level” projects, into deep OS/kernel knowledge that is hard to find outside FAANG and a few other spaces.
For non-emacs nerds who didn't get the joke - command for exiting Emacs is 'M-x kill-emacs', also, you don't "delete-word" in Emacs, command for it is 'kill-word', there's also 'kill-paragraph' and so on.
I do that's the rub with any language that works with procedural macroexpansion: it's conceptually hard to make diagnostics correspond one-to-one with original syntax. I think it might be especially hard with Common Lisp-style reader macros (i.e. procedures triggered at the parsing stage when a character is read in the input stream).
Right.

By failure I personally meant the monetary value being erased. e.g going from $100k to $10k, staying there for a few years trading sideways, then going down to $0 (or close, whatever)

That part feels extremely unlikely to me. I would give it in the range of 10-25% chance of occurring, given the history, momentum and human behavior.
Of course they have a right to free speech, but when I'm choosing a platform it's the user experience that matters to me and not the rights of the operators. Twitter lets me visit or follow any other account on the platform and see what they have to say, and the ability to do that across a wide range of interests and viewpoints is exactly why I use it. If Mastodon requires setting up a custom server to replicate that experience, it's not a good replacement for me.
It is just too long. It does not include any illegal characters, but it is ~50% larger than it needs to be.
In Iceland rn with Icelandic family- polling them and their reasoning for wanting to join the EU has ZERO to do with Putin/Russia/Ukraine etc and everything to do with gaining access to the Euro for economic stability and the fact that they already abide by EU rules/regs but don't have the ability to vote.
Almost like claimed “control” is no control at all and yet more people are convinced of their power over life while displaying their helplessness and lack of wisdom.
I guess that’s science now: learn one small thing and project it over everything.
I remember that when io_uring was in it's early stages several pointed to kqueue (also nt'wait_for_multiple_something or iocp and solaris event ports). By coming later, I think io_uring was able to better fit modern reality and also avoid problems from previous implementations.

Hope security issues with it are solved and usage becomes mostly transparent through userspace libs, it looks like a high performance strategy for our current computing hardware.
Agreed. Landing gears can be gravity-operated when hydraulics are out.
Not really, for most countries this kind of intelligence gathering is really expensive with low ROI and so not worth it. (Edit: word order for clarity.)

The typical country is closer to Cambodia or Honduras not a world power. China can leverage it, but most countries aren’t China.
The moonlander looks a bit intimidating. How long did it take to transition from a standard kb?
You do not want auto gear down. There are situations where having the gear down might makes much much worse and you might not be able to be in a situation where you can bring them back up.
German economy (manufacturing exports) is pretty much the opposite to the Iceland economy (primary sector). Iceland would be in a similar position to Norway. Basically Europe needs new primary sector partners to replace Russia, so Iceland would be very welcome and it'd seem a good synergy.
I’d argue that the political message is indivisible from the information-giving message in this case. Most of the groups doing this are in the business because they have a distrust for authority, desire to help community, etc. Shouldn’t we expect their messaging to be a little on the anarchist or libertarian side?
Running Llama LLM on Windows 98
Here's some python code that implements what I discussed:

def decode_id(id):
if id is None:
return None
return str(uuid.UUID(bytes=base58.b58decode(id)))

def encode_id(id):
if id is None:
return None
if not isinstance(id, uuid.UUID):
id = uuid.UUID(hex=id)
return base58.b58encode(id.bytes)

def ensure_id(id):
if id is None:
return None
try:
return decode_id(id)
except Exception:
try:
encode_id(id)
except Exception:
return None
else:
return id
They should complete the circle and allow instances to invade and take over other instances/subjecate other instances’ users.
There’s not even much argument for it being true in most cases.

Artisan made tools compared to high end tools from a factory are more like a mechanical watch compared to an electronic one. It might be a cool mechanism and a more unique statement piece than an Apple Watch, but it sure won’t keep better time.
I have replaced “Apple Photos” with photoprism. I am happy so far.

Related blog post: https://www.convalesco.org/notes/2024/09/29/setup-photoprism...
And Apple sold the same GSM iPhone 4 without making any changes to it for 3 years and the uproar died down.

Before anyone well actually’s me, yes they did come out with a separate CDMA iPhone 4 for Verizon where they changed the antenna design
I think there should be professional association punishment for arguments presented in court that done so knowingly in bad faith. The examples given in the mental gymnastics used to claim copyright infringement is a great example. It's blatantly false and not true, and it's presented despite knowing it will be easily countered, because the FUD it provides to the jury makes it appear like a stronger case. It's arguing to prey on the vulnerabilities of human psychology rather than doing so in good faith and trying to represent someone's rights under the law.
It's interesting how much simpler the dress code for women is.

4. 10. 1. 2. Dress code for women.

Classic shoes.

Trouser or skirt suit or dress, preferably unicoloured, but not mandatory
I’ve procured substantial quantities of gray market (not illegal yet) medication ‘for research purposes’ and can probably safely say that it has indeed saved my life. While the medication was purchased the protocol was of my own design. Like many people with chronic conditions (LongCovid/Chronic Fatigue) I’ve long given up on doctors and only use them when I have to get a prescription. A lot of what I used are the human encoded bio regulator peptides mainly studied by Prof Khavinson and largely ignored in the West. Bacteriophages are another interesting medical technique ignored by the west. These days I think GLP-1A (ozempic) etc also help with auto-immune conditions so I’m confident there will be a lot of off label use at lower doses and I’m sure there already is. I haven’t had time to watch the video yet but Low Dose Naltrexone is a perfect case study of an effective medication dying due to lack of funding and being revived by patient groups. Naltrexone is a generic so there is no money in making it a treatment.

For a few years there was a shortage of modafinil so I looked into making it myself. It’s not too hard, totally doable. As technology improves it’ll get even easier. Especially going from a low yield batch chemistry to a higher yield lab on a chip continuous chemistry. For more complex stuff there are micro-bioreactors to use recombinant DNA. It’s pretty cost effective to send off samples for analysis. I’m not confident enough to use any of my own synthesized meds, at this stage it’s just a hobby.

Procuring a custom batch of meds from Asia can be as cheep as $10K so patient groups sometimes organize group buys. Because the turnaround is so quick and there are plenty of volunteers the patient groups can get results much faster than the medical researchers.
737 NG does not have fuel dump capability. Its hard to use the thrust reverser if the fuel pumps are off.
I didn't read it like that at all.
I am not sure which "we" you are referring to, but CCC puts quite some effort in dubbing and subtitles (while those can take more time to publish)
> I think that is federation working as intended

My email provider doesn't prevent me from sending an email from someone at Gmail because someone at Gmail happens to have opposite views to the admin.

Yet email is still federated.
> Idk if I agree as split keyboards is likely not what folks have in mind…

The article literally mentions a mechanical split keyboard, without mentioning the ErgoDox.
About twenty-five years ago, two Chinese students at my university were killed for seemingly no reason. Whoever killed them didn't steal anything. They hadn't been in any known conflicts with others in the community. It seemed completely random. But it wasn't. Turned out the husband was the son of the governor of some rural province in China. The father got into some kind of conflict with rivals, so they sent someone to the US to murder his son and daughter-in-law to send him a message. They were in the US under aliases but that didn't protect them, neither did being on the other side of the planet in a small, rural college town.

If China wants to reach out and make an example of students in the US who turn their back on their homeland, they can do so very easily and in a manner that both has plausible deniability and sends a clear message to other students. We're an open society and it's impossible to protect everyone from other nation-states if they see an individual as a threat to the nation-state's interests.
You seem like a human, so I give you the benefit of the doubt. Try to see the forest behind the trees instead of just repeating yourself ignoring what is said.
While a noble cause, this seems like a prime example of “techies convince themselves they are smarter than everyone and they can solve every single problem with JavaScript”. Which is why, when you actually look at the project, it’s a website, instructions for a 3D printed version of the chemistry kit I bought my kid for Christmas for $40, several software suites all listed as “pre-alpha” (read: not working), and instructions for turning their logo into merch like stickers. This comes off more like an art project at best, or a garage-band version of Theranos at worst.

I hate being cynical about something like this. I want there to be affordable health solutions for people. But this comes off so naive and self-aggrandizing that it makes me want to actually get out of tech and into a field where people are more grounded. Something with fewer religious fanatics, God complexes, and delusions of grandeur.
> If beating SEO was something a company with a different algorithm could do, then it would have happened by now.

The reductio of this argument is that nothing can ever change or improve because if it was possible someone would have done it already.

More to the point, people who have used Kagi seem to speak favorably of it. A search engine you have to pay for is never going to be the mass market option, but it can have enough users to be self-sustaining and remain one of the options, and it proves it can be done.
Struggling to wrap my head around how this is possible. Seems others are too [0]. A computer made in, say, minecraft can be given inputs. But since GoL is a zero player game (the player only selects the initial states), how can it possibly compute anything other than the static inputs it's originally provided? Perhaps that's sufficient for Turing Completeness? (when I click 'Run' on the provided link, my chrome tab becomes unresponsive; was hoping to disprove my own disbelief by playing Tetris in GoL but thus far unsuccessful, yet remaining hopeful!).

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/394957/why-can-conway-s-...

[1] https://copy.sh/life/?pattern=TetrisOTCAMP.mc
I think it facilitates the relatively high social mobility you see in the US. Being able to start over a few times means you can easily reinvent yourself whereas someone that lives in the same situation they were born into might not.
It's possible to weld an aluminum frame but you'll have to heat treat it, at which point it's no longer a simple and cheap operation.

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/To-the-Point-Heat-Treating-Alu...
People can make a good educated guess without being literally infallible.
Can't access the article :/

But, perhaps related, I learned of this the other day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_front_(China)
Same, I'm qualified to do it but turning it over to Microsoft for 8 bucks/mth for wife and I was no brainer. We get 50GB Mailboxes and working ActiveSync. Web Interface is much improved as well.
are all hard to understand concepts bad concepts?

are hard concepts from math and science bad concepts? should we discard calculus?

is potty training a toddler a bad concept? they initially struggle with it and some find it hard

is a healthy diet a bad concept? people without prior knowledge of what's healthy and what isn't are likely to struggle
Don't they already have a market agreement with the EU? Seems to me like they have a nice side deal.
Basically every commercial aircraft are required to at least be able to fly straight and level on one engine. The 737 NG can climb perfectly fine on a single engine, especially since this one was at the destination and would have burned off most of the fuel.
>Projects like this convince people that all drugs are actually really easy to make, when in reality this project has carefully selected the most simple examples to make that misleading point.

For the last thirty or so years ccc has mainly been a place for people to lie or exaggerate on stage in order to promote their security consulting firm or other freelance project.

So this is to be expected.

If replication in psychology is a crisis, the replication of results from hacker conference talks is an extinction-level apocalypse.
true

spending 2.5 months doomscrolling or browsing tiktok, on the other hand....
I wonder how things would have played out back in the crisis of 2008 if Iceland was a member of the Eurozone:

What they would have been allowed or forced to do and whether their response could have been the same.
'I've been skeptical about AGI. I believe it's within reach.'
I often have trouble first night on a trip even when jet lag isn't involved although that, of course, makes things worse. Then I usually get into a rhythm.

And, yes, especially when time zones are involved, sticking to a schedule and getting exercise helps.
Not all heros wear capes. I love those guys.

"Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!" --RATM

That is, IMO, the most important album of the 20th Century.
Brief update: I really really like rio. Out of the box it has the best theme, best setup. It’s fast. Pretty. I like it tons.

Ghostty is nice. Haven’t had much time with WezTerm.
Fintech Rivalries to Watch in 2025
I have no idea what your wall of text is supposed to imply or mean.
The same way missing mobile feels so nuts that it's gotta be deliberate.
There were even (bad) jokes about it newspapers at the time.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-14-ls-8729-s...

> Why didn’t Intel call the Pentium the 586? Because they added 486 and 100 on the first Pentium and got 585.999983605 .”
Since you’re ethnically Bangladeshi, have you never had someone in the US be racist to you?
That is true, however, one thing to keep in mind, is that these tools like Via / Vial, will always be limited compared to a fully fledged programming language like C with and its QMK framework.
Something that I only realized after the fact.
I wonder if this'd just lead to a perverse incentive[1] where the share of Chinese nationals in universities increases as an effect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
This question is pedantic but I’ll ask it anyways: is it actually illegal to take an unapproved drug? Sale of, marketing for, distribution, etc. all might be (are?) illegal but is TAKING an unapproved drug illegal? I can’t believe it is, there’s an entire industry that peddles nootropics and supplements. My understanding has always been that if you can get it (however that is), you can take it without issue (although you obviously might have broken a possession law at some point).
What has been kept in the shadows will be brought into the light.

Vampires fear the light of truth for good and proper reasons.
I have followed Sacha for a long while, love her frequent Emacs updates. I am a rabid Common Lisp enthusiast, and I bought the Mastering Emacs book last year, I just need to pull the trigger and try doing a project in Emacs Lisp.
Right now Kagi is a better search engine than Google. Why should some eventual demise in the future discourage anyone? There is no cost of switching and you can start using it right away